The Zubatto Sampler

Two weeks to go until the Zubatto Syndicate premiere at Town Hall. If you don't have your tickets yet, you can buy them here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/86349

Last night, I had the pleasure of attending a presentation and mixer for all 39 2009 CityArtist winners. It was great to hear about all of the different projects that were funded, and an honor to be selected along with such amazing peers. I'm especially excited to check out "Bloody Henry," a puppet show by Brian Kooser, and Tiffany Lin's project which will create new instruments from the parts of old pianos and then perform newly composed music on them.

All of the funded projects sound amazing and are all incredibly diverse in concept, tone and material. I encourage you to check them all out and support these artists.

As part of the presentation, I played approximately 3 minutes from recordings of the latest Zubatto rehearsal. Ordinarily, I would rather eat my shoes than post something like this, but since I already put it together, I figured "why not share it with my blog readers (hi, Mom!)." Anyways, the recording quality is horrible, and there are some warts, but consider it a teaser for November 5th!

More recent news:
* I talk about Zubatto and pants with The Sunbreak's MVB:
http://www.thesunbreak.com/2009/10/19/where-the-wild-jazz-things-are
* Seattle Magazine says to "Go" to the Zubatto show, "so you can tell all the Johnny-come-latelies you heard it first." Yeah.
http://www.seattlemag.com/0p66ev1530/zubatto-syndicate/